Catholic pilgrims traveling in horse-drawn wagons making the pilgrimage from Jerez to El Rocio in southern Spain

Catholic pilgrims traveling in horse-drawn wagons making the pilgrimage from Jerez to El Rocio in southern Spain Stock Photo
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Wamodo / Alamy Stock Photo

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DB41PR

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45.7 MB (1.9 MB Compressed download)

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4896 x 3264 px | 41.5 x 27.6 cm | 16.3 x 10.9 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

15 May 2013

Location:

Donana national park, Huelva, Spain

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The El Rocio pilgrimage dates back to 1653 and attracts more than a million Catholic pilgrims from all over Spain to the small shrine of El Rocio in the province of Huelva in Andalusia. A statue of the Virgin Mary was said to have been discovered in a tree trunk by a hunter from the village of Villamanrique in the 13th century in the Donana park. This marked the site for future pilgrimages.The pilgrims, known as Rocieros, travel in groups called brotherhoods on foot or with horses, wagons and elaborate horse-drawn carriages designed to transport their silver and gold Madonnas to the shrine in the village of El Rocio.